SteamyTea

If it is in tomorrows Daily Mail then we will hear about it. Or Reform's manifesto.

Not quite half an hour https://www.edie.net/reports-ministers-threatened-to-resign-over-proposed-weakening-of-heat-pump-ambitions/

Let's see after the budget.

5 local ones and 20 within 100 miles, Though on a newbuild, probably not worth using MCS for an ASHP. Just buy the unit that is suitable and just about anyone can fit it. Care to share the results, and maybe some outline plans? It is always good to put 'stuff' into the general pot then others can see if it is useful to themselves. (not a lot else today as it is raining all day, again)

You can, if you technically live in the property (read what you like into "technically live in"), get boarders (lodgers) and if the revenue is below a certain amount ((7,500 I think), not have to declare it. Lodgers always used to be easy to get rid of as well (weeks notice), but that may have changed in the last decade since I had one).

Planning permission and building regs are two totally separate things. Think of it as owing a taxed, MOTed and insured car, but you have no license to drive it. You can park it on a public road, but you cannot move it.

That could work quite well. Can it be incorporated into, what would in effect be, a forced air heating system, or oversized MVHR ducts? If your house is upside down, and you have loft space, then fitting ducts with 2 or 3 times the normal diameter should be easy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/OFFO-Stainless-Windows-Deterrent-Seagulls/dp/B0BL7PF3WG/ref=asc_df_B0BL7PF3WG May help in the surrounding area. Maybe a cat, though there are new laws about encouraging the neighbours' cat to stay away from home now. Maybe some sort of electric fence weaved into a few branches. Or a noise.

Yes. I think that @Surfiejim needs to find a better plumber. And probably get a decent heat loss calculation done.

Is it a gloryhole? Or two.

It is a new build, so the OP may have it covered by his planning application. Or live in a field with no neighbours.

No idea. Find a place you know and give it a go.

kJ.kg-1K-1

Does mean that it takes less energy to heat up the water/anti-freeze mix in the first place. If heat transfer was purely down to the SHC, then a A2AHP would not be much cop. (not talking about a phase change here as that is a special case) I think the only extra losses are frictional in the pipework that increases the pumping load.

Is this your bike shed? Just get the cheapest hole saw and it will be fine. No need to go overboard with this. It is a simple job as you will find out, in about 30 seconds of starting.

A simple app on the phone with measure that. You can use Google Earth to measure distance and elevation. https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148134?hl=en

A lot of materials are now being made with lower embodied energy than they were a decade ago. I think that the two biggest things to tackle next (and fast) to lower atmospheric CO2 levels are transport and agriculture, especially land use change.

I am not sure how much the lower specific heat capacity of a water/anti-freeze mix really affects efficiency. There may be a small penalty to pay for extra pumping, but probably not measurable in reality.

Cornish Palms are really yuccas. Isn't basket weaving taught by therapists after one has a breakdown. May be useful info for self builders.

Really. Works well in a cold house. That isn't particularly good. See above. The zombie unit that will never die.

Is that what people do with a sheep in their shed. First time I have heard it called that. I the flower frog is tugging on a distant memory.

Welcome I have kept out of this so far, more out of idleness than anything else. Does it really have to be 1200+m2, could get 24 of my houses in there. What would be my biggest concern is the financial risk you are taking when you order the ICF. Is the agent you are dealing with large enough to deal with this? What happens if they vanish? A year ago we had a new member who was full of enthusiasm for his ICF build near me, the supplying company went bust on him and he has since vanished. I can only assume that he is resaving some cash to start again.

Misspent youth

There were some of those in my Father's shed. No idea what they were for either.